We’re celebrating 60 years since Star Trek first arrived on television. Sixty years – can you believe that? Over the last few days, I’ve seen so many videos with William Shatner and other Star Trek actors that I suddenly realized Star Trek is a lot older than I am. The Original Series debuted on September 8, 1966, a date that even shows up in my September trivia questions and answers.
My own Star Trek story started much later. Star Trek: The Next Generation was the first series I saw. I had a black-and-white TV then, and we’d only recently gained access to more than the national TV channels. Somewhere along the show, we finally bought a color TV. It was… awesome! Cable TV was huge for me. Later I discovered Star Trek with Captain Kirk, the first in the Star Trek series, then Deep Space Nine…
Years passed, and a few years ago I discovered that Patrick Stewart had returned as Picard. Of course I had to watch. Then, this year, when I saw that The Next Generation was leaving Netflix where I live, I started binge-watching the entire series. I don’t usually do that, but I’m very happy I watched all seven seasons again. So many subjects were brought into the light back then, and so many of the ideas still make you think decades later.
I don’t know every tiny detail from every Star Trek show, but I’ve loved this universe for years, and the 60th anniversary seemed like the right excuse to create a huge Star Trek trivia challenge. Below you’ll find 200 Star Trek trivia questions and answers covering every major era, from Kirk, Spock and the original Enterprise to TNG, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, the movies and newer Star Trek. They’re grouped from easy to medium and hard, but even the hard Star Trek trivia questions are meant to be answerable by fans.
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Give yourself one point for every correct answer. The series are mixed throughout on purpose, so you never know whether the next question will take you to Kirk’s Enterprise, Deep Space Nine, the Delta Quadrant or somewhere completely different. Let’s see how much Star Trek has stayed in your memory.
Easy Star Trek Trivia Questions and Answers
The first 70 easy Star Trek trivia questions and answers are meant to give you a good start without placing the answer inside the question. These also work well as Star Trek trivia questions for beginners or for a mixed group where some players know every captain and others mainly remember the biggest characters and movies.
Kirk and Picard appear often, but these classic Star Trek trivia questions move between crews, ships, species and eras so you won’t spend 20 questions in a row on one show.
Captains, Crews and Characters
We begin with familiar Star Trek character trivia questions: captains, bridge crews, doctors, engineers and several characters who became closely associated with their respective series.
1. What is Captain Kirk’s full name?
Answer: James Tiberius Kirk.
2. What two species make up Spock’s heritage?
Answer: Human and Vulcan. Spock’s mixed heritage became central to his character, with many stories exploring the tension between Vulcan logic and the emotions he inherited from his Human side.
3. Who commands the USS Enterprise-D for most of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Answer: Jean-Luc Picard.
4. Which android serves as a Starfleet officer aboard the Enterprise-D?
Answer: Data.
5. Which Klingon serves as a Starfleet officer aboard the Enterprise-D?
Answer: Worf.
6. Who is captain of the USS Voyager?
Answer: Kathryn Janeway.
7. Who commands Deep Space Nine and later receives a promotion to captain?
Answer: Benjamin Sisko.
8. Who captains Enterprise NX-01?
Answer: Jonathan Archer.
9. What nickname is commonly used for Dr. Leonard McCoy?
Answer: Bones.
10. Who serves as chief engineer aboard Kirk’s Enterprise?
Answer: Montgomery Scott, better known as Scotty.
11. Who is Captain Picard’s first officer aboard the Enterprise-D?
Answer: William Riker.
12. Who becomes chief engineer of the Enterprise-D?
Answer: Geordi La Forge.
13. Who serves as ship’s counselor aboard the Enterprise-D?
Answer: Deanna Troi.
14. Who is chief medical officer aboard the Enterprise-D for most of The Next Generation?
Answer: Dr. Beverly Crusher.
15. Which shape-shifter is responsible for security on Deep Space Nine?
Answer: Odo.
16. Who owns the famous bar on Deep Space Nine’s Promenade?
Answer: Quark.
17. Who becomes Voyager’s first officer after the Starfleet and Maquis crews join forces?
Answer: Chakotay.
18. Which Vulcan serves as Voyager’s chief of security?
Answer: Tuvok.
19. Which former Borg drone becomes a member of Voyager’s crew?
Answer: Seven of Nine.
20. Which officer handles communications aboard Kirk’s Enterprise?
Answer: Nyota Uhura.
21. Who normally serves as helmsman aboard Kirk’s Enterprise?
Answer: Hikaru Sulu.
22. Which young Russian officer joins the Enterprise bridge crew as navigator?
Answer: Pavel Chekov.
23. Who captains the Enterprise in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Answer: Christopher Pike.
24. Which character played by Sonequa Martin-Green is at the center of Star Trek: Discovery?
Answer: Michael Burnham.
25. Which actor returned to play Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard?
Answer: Patrick Stewart.
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Starships, Species and Famous Places
Star Trek starship trivia questions can quickly turn into collections of registry numbers, so this part keeps those to a minimum. You’ll also find several Star Trek alien species trivia questions covering the cultures and worlds most fans are likely to recognize.
26. What is the name of the starship commanded by James T. Kirk in The Original Series?
Answer: USS Enterprise.
27. What registry number belongs to Kirk’s original Enterprise?
Answer: NCC-1701.
28. Which letter distinguishes Picard’s main Enterprise from the original NCC-1701?
Answer: D.
29. In which quadrant is Voyager stranded near the beginning of the series?
Answer: The Delta Quadrant.
30. Deep Space Nine is located near which planet?
Answer: Bajor.
31. The Bajoran wormhole connects the Alpha Quadrant with which distant quadrant?
Answer: The Gamma Quadrant.
32. What cybernetic collective repeatedly threatens the Federation in The Next Generation and Voyager?
Answer: The Borg.
33. What is Spock’s homeworld?
Answer: Vulcan.
34. What is the Klingon homeworld called?
Answer: Qo’noS, often pronounced Kronos.
35. What is the traditional homeworld of the Romulan people?
Answer: Romulus.
36. What is the name of the institution where future Starfleet officers train?
Answer: Starfleet Academy.
37. What is the registry number of the USS Voyager?
Answer: NCC-74656.
38. What powerful Starfleet warship is assigned to Benjamin Sisko during Deep Space Nine?
Answer: USS Defiant.
39. What major speed milestone is Enterprise NX-01 designed to achieve?
Answer: Warp 5.
40. Which species can be joined with long-lived symbionts and retain memories from previous hosts?
Answer: Trill.
41. What species is Lwaxana Troi, Deanna Troi’s mother?
Answer: Betazoid.
42. Which blue-skinned species from an icy world has distinctive antennae?
Answer: Andorians.
43. What is the name of the realm or group of powerful beings to which Q belongs?
Answer: The Q Continuum.
44. What Starfleet rule limits interference in the natural development of other civilizations?
Answer: The Prime Directive, also known as General Order 1. It is one of Starfleet’s defining principles and has generated some of the franchise’s biggest moral dilemmas, since captains regularly face situations where helping a society can conflict with the rule against interference.
45. What room aboard many Starfleet vessels can create immersive simulated environments?
Answer: The holodeck.
46. What Star Trek technology can create food, drinks and many everyday objects on demand?
Answer: The replicator.
47. What handheld energy weapon is commonly carried by Starfleet officers?
Answer: A phaser.
48. What portable Starfleet device is used to scan and analyze people, objects and environments?
Answer: A tricorder.
49. What technology allows characters speaking different alien languages to understand one another?
Answer: The Universal Translator. Star Trek imagined near-instant communication across languages long before today’s translation apps and earbuds, which is one reason I thought of the series while looking at how real-time translation for travel is developing.
50. What technique can Vulcans use to render someone unconscious with a precise touch near the neck?
Answer: The Vulcan nerve pinch. Leonard Nimoy helped develop the idea while filming the first season because he felt a logical Vulcan such as Spock would use something more controlled than simply striking an opponent over the head.
Episodes, Movies and the Wider Star Trek Universe
The last 20 easy questions add famous episodes, accessible Star Trek movie trivia questions and answers, and a small amount of newer Trek. Movie fans can continue afterward with my much larger collection of movie trivia questions and answers.
51. Which episode became the first Star Trek episode broadcast on U.S. television?
Answer: “The Man Trap.” NBC aired it on September 8, 1966, even though it wasn’t the first episode produced. That broadcast date is why September 8 became Star Trek Day.
52. What small, furry creatures multiply rapidly and cause chaos in “The Trouble with Tribbles”?
Answer: Tribbles.
53. Which Star Trek film brings Khan Noonien Singh back into conflict with Kirk?
Answer: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
54. What animals must Kirk and his crew bring from 1986 into the future in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home?
Answer: Humpback whales.
55. Which species makes official first contact with humanity after Earth’s first successful warp flight?
Answer: Vulcans. Within Star Trek history, the meeting takes place on April 5, 2063, and becomes such an important event that April 5 is celebrated as First Contact Day.
56. Which movie sends the Enterprise-E crew into Earth’s past to prevent the Borg from changing history?
Answer: Star Trek: First Contact.
57. In which movie do James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard meet?
Answer: Star Trek Generations.
58. Who is the clone of Jean-Luc Picard who becomes the main antagonist in Star Trek: Nemesis?
Answer: Shinzon.
59. Who plays James T. Kirk in the Star Trek films that began in 2009?
Answer: Chris Pine.
60. Who plays Khan in Star Trek Into Darkness?
Answer: Benedict Cumberbatch.
61. What enormous space station does the Enterprise crew visit in Star Trek Beyond?
Answer: Yorktown.
62. In which century is Star Trek: Enterprise primarily set?
Answer: The 22nd century.
63. Which Star Trek series brought the original crew into animation during the 1970s?
Answer: Star Trek: The Animated Series.
64. What experimental propulsion system allows the Discovery to travel through the mycelial network?
Answer: The spore drive. Rather than moving through space conventionally, the fictional system uses a network of microscopic fungal pathways that stretches across the universe and allows the ship to make enormous jumps almost instantly.
65. What traditional family business is associated with Jean-Luc Picard’s home in France?
Answer: Winemaking.
66. What is the full name of Number One in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?
Answer: Una Chin-Riley.
67. What Starfleet ship is home to the main crew of Star Trek: Lower Decks?
Answer: USS Cerritos.
68. What ship do the young characters discover at the beginning of Star Trek: Prodigy?
Answer: USS Protostar.
69. Who serves as chancellor of Starfleet Academy in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy?
Answer: Nahla Ake. The character leads the Academy during its return to the San Francisco campus after more than a century away, placing one of Star Trek’s newest series inside an institution that has existed in the franchise for decades.
70. Who created Star Trek?
Answer: Gene Roddenberry.
Your Easy-Round Score
Write down your score before continuing. The first 70 were designed to be accessible, but you still needed knowledge from several different Star Trek eras.
Easy round: ___ / 70
The medium section goes further into episodes, relationships, alien cultures and movies, while still staying with facts regular viewers can reasonably remember.
Medium Star Trek Trivia Questions and Answers
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The next 80 medium Star Trek trivia questions ask for more than character recognition. You’ll need to remember storylines, family connections, technology, villains, alien cultures and details that may have disappeared somewhere in the years since you watched an episode.
This is probably my favorite difficulty level. While rewatching TNG this year, I kept rediscovering characters and ideas I’d forgotten, and it brought back many memories from the years covered in my 90s trivia questions and answers. Medium should give you plenty of those “I know this…” moments before the answer finally comes back.
Characters, Relationships and Backstories
These Star Trek character trivia questions move deeper into friendships, families and personal histories. TOS and TNG still appear often, but DS9, Voyager and Enterprise are mixed through the same round.
71. What three-dimensional strategy game is Spock often seen playing?
Answer: Three-dimensional chess.
72. What fictional crystalline material is crucial to regulating the matter-antimatter reactions used in Star Trek warp drives?
Answer: Dilithium. Star Trek uses dilithium as a vital part of its faster-than-light propulsion technology, although real-world dilithium is simply a lithium compound rather than a magical warp-drive crystal. If you enjoy separating science fiction from actual science, the science trivia questions take that challenge in a very different direction.
73. Who is Spock’s father?
Answer: Sarek.
74. What is the name of Spock’s Human mother?
Answer: Amanda Grayson.
75. Which cyberneticist created Data?
Answer: Dr. Noonien Soong.
76. What is the name of Data’s dangerous android brother?
Answer: Lore.
77. What Betazoid word describes the deep personal bond between Deanna Troi and William Riker?
Answer: Imzadi.
78. What is the name of Worf’s son?
Answer: Alexander Rozhenko.
79. What is the name of Data’s pet cat?
Answer: Spot.
80. What device does Geordi La Forge use to see during most of The Next Generation?
Answer: A VISOR.
81. What is the name of Benjamin Sisko’s son?
Answer: Jake Sisko.
82. What name does the Dominion use for the shape-shifting beings who lead it?
Answer: The Founders.
83. Which Trill is the first Dax host viewers meet as a regular Deep Space Nine character?
Answer: Jadzia Dax.
84. Who becomes the next Dax host after Jadzia?
Answer: Ezri Dax.
85. Who serves as the Enterprise-D’s chief of security before Worf takes over the position?
Answer: Tasha Yar.
86. What is the name of Quark’s brother?
Answer: Rom.
87. Who becomes the first Ferengi to join Starfleet?
Answer: Nog.
88. Who serves as Voyager’s chief engineer?
Answer: B’Elanna Torres.
89. Which actor plays Voyager’s Emergency Medical Hologram, usually known simply as The Doctor?
Answer: Robert Picardo. If fictional doctors are one of your strongest TV categories, my medical drama TV trivia leaves Starfleet Sickbay behind for Grey’s Anatomy, House, ER and many others.
90. Which Vulcan science officer joins the crew of Enterprise NX-01?
Answer: T’Pol.
Episodes, Missions and Famous Enemies
The Star Trek quiz questions and answers in this part move into famous plots and recurring threats. Regular viewers should recognize most of the episodes or characters involved even when the answer takes a little more thought.
91. What Vulcan technique allows one mind to share thoughts, memories or experiences with another?
Answer: The mind meld. Spock helped establish the mind meld as one of the best-known pieces of Vulcan culture, and later series expanded its uses, risks and significance considerably.
92. What biological cycle periodically affects Vulcans and creates an overwhelming drive to mate?
Answer: Pon farr.
93. Which Original Series episode first takes the Enterprise crew into the Mirror Universe?
Answer: “Mirror, Mirror.”
94. What name do the Borg give Jean-Luc Picard after assimilating him?
Answer: Locutus. His assimilation in “The Best of Both Worlds” turned one of Starfleet’s best-known captains into a Borg spokesman and created consequences that continued long after the immediate crisis ended.
95. Which species communicates through references to shared stories and metaphors in “Darmok”?
Answer: The Tamarians, also called the Children of Tama.
96. What musical instrument does Picard keep after his experience in “The Inner Light”?
Answer: A Ressikan flute. Picard lives what feels like an entire lifetime as Kamin before returning to the Enterprise, and the small flute becomes a physical connection to a civilization that otherwise disappeared.
97. Which earlier Enterprise appears in the TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise”?
Answer: USS Enterprise-C.
98. Which Cardassian interrogator repeatedly questions Picard in “Chain of Command”?
Answer: Gul Madred.
99. What genetically engineered soldiers form the main military force of the Dominion?
Answer: The Jem’Hadar.
100. Which Dominion species frequently serves as diplomats, administrators and commanders?
Answer: The Vorta.
101. What major conflict dominates much of the later part of Deep Space Nine?
Answer: The Dominion War. The conflict changes DS9 from a station on a distant frontier into one of the Federation’s most strategically important locations and allows the series to explore the cost of war over multiple seasons rather than within a single episode.
102. What is Garak’s first name?
Answer: Elim.
103. Which powerful being or entity pulls Voyager across the galaxy in the series premiere?
Answer: The Caretaker.
104. What species is Kes?
Answer: Ocampa.
105. What species is Neelix?
Answer: Talaxian.
106. Which species is dangerous enough to make the Borg consider cooperation with Voyager in “Scorpion”?
Answer: Species 8472.
107. Which faction becomes a recurring player in Enterprise’s Temporal Cold War?
Answer: The Suliban Cabal.
108. Which species launches a devastating attack on Earth during Star Trek: Enterprise?
Answer: The Xindi.
109. What is the name of Zefram Cochrane’s warp-capable spacecraft?
Answer: Phoenix. Its successful warp flight attracts the attention of passing Vulcans and becomes one of the pivotal events in Star Trek’s fictional history of humanity’s move into interstellar society.
110. What experimental technology lies at the center of the conflict in The Wrath of Khan?
Answer: The Genesis Device.
Starfleet, Starships and Alien Cultures
These medium Star Trek trivia questions explore the institutions, technologies and cultures that connect different series. Fans looking for Star Trek TNG trivia questions, Voyager trivia questions and Enterprise trivia will find all three mixed together instead of separated into predictable blocks.
111. What famous Starfleet test presents cadets with a no-win scenario?
Answer: The Kobayashi Maru test. The point isn’t simply to find a tactical solution; the scenario tests how a prospective officer responds when victory isn’t available. Kirk’s refusal to accept the premise became part of his character’s mythology.
112. What is the Klingon afterlife for honored warriors called?
Answer: Sto-Vo-Kor.
113. What Vulcan discipline is Spock attempting to complete at the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture?
Answer: Kolinahr.
114. What collection of commercial principles guides traditional Ferengi business behavior?
Answer: The Rules of Acquisition.
115. What valuable material is commonly used as currency by the Ferengi?
Answer: Gold-pressed latinum.
116. Who is Spock expected to marry in “Amok Time”?
Answer: T’Pring.
117. What is the Romulan intelligence service called?
Answer: The Tal Shiar.
118. Who tends bar in Ten Forward and becomes a trusted confidante to members of the Enterprise crew?
Answer: Guinan. She doesn’t serve in Starfleet, yet her conversations often give Picard and other crew members a perspective they weren’t getting from the people around them, which makes Ten Forward far more than a place for drinks.
119. Which doctor replaces Beverly Crusher as chief medical officer during the second season of The Next Generation?
Answer: Dr. Katherine Pulaski. Diana Muldaur played Pulaski for one season before Beverly Crusher returned, giving TNG a very different doctor-patient and doctor-Data dynamic for that year.
120. What was Deep Space Nine called while it operated as a Cardassian station?
Answer: Terok Nor.
121. Which Sherlock Holmes villain becomes dangerously self-aware after being created on the Enterprise-D holodeck?
Answer: Professor James Moriarty.
122. What organic components supplement Voyager’s conventional computer systems?
Answer: Bio-neural gel packs.
123. What class of starship is the USS Voyager?
Answer: Intrepid-class.
124. Which Vulcan organization does T’Pol initially represent before her loyalties become more closely tied to Enterprise?
Answer: The Vulcan High Command. Enterprise premiered in 2001, so readers who remember that television era well may have an advantage in my broader 2000s trivia questions and answers too.
125. What species is Dr. Phlox?
Answer: Denobulan.
126. Which Andorian commander develops a complicated alliance and rivalry with Jonathan Archer?
Answer: Shran.
127. What maneuver allows the Enterprise-D to divide into two independently operating sections?
Answer: Saucer separation. The Galaxy-class design lets the saucer detach from the stardrive section, a feature used when separating civilians from danger or when the ship itself faces an emergency.
128. What curved bladed weapon is strongly associated with Klingon warriors?
Answer: The bat’leth.
129. Which Original Series episode introduces the Klingons to Star Trek?
Answer: “Errand of Mercy.”
130. What breed is Captain Archer’s dog, Porthos?
Answer: Beagle.
Movies and Connections Across Star Trek
The final 20 medium questions include Star Trek movie trivia questions and answers from the original-cast films, TNG movies and the Kelvin timeline. They focus on memorable story details rather than budgets, box-office numbers or obscure production records.
131. What mysterious entity is approaching Earth in Star Trek: The Motion Picture?
Answer: V’ger.
132. On which planet does Kirk discover Khan and his followers in The Wrath of Khan?
Answer: Ceti Alpha V.
133. Which Klingon commander pursues Kirk and his crew in The Search for Spock?
Answer: Kruge.
134. Which city do Kirk and his crew spend much of their time in after traveling to 1986 in The Voyage Home?
Answer: San Francisco.
135. To which penal colony are Kirk and McCoy sent in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country?
Answer: Rura Penthe.
136. Which Klingon chancellor is assassinated during Star Trek VI?
Answer: Chancellor Gorkon.
137. What mysterious realm inside an energy ribbon traps both Kirk and Picard in Generations?
Answer: The Nexus.
138. Which actress plays the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact?
Answer: Alice Krige. Her performance established the character as an individual face for a collective that had previously been presented largely as an impersonal hive mind.
139. What is the name of the long-lived people the Enterprise-E crew helps in Star Trek: Insurrection?
Answer: The Ba’ku.
140. On which world was Shinzon raised after being abandoned by the Romulans?
Answer: Remus.
141. Who is the Romulan antagonist in the 2009 Star Trek film?
Answer: Nero.
142. How is Vulcan destroyed in Star Trek (2009)?
Answer: An artificial black hole is created using red matter.
143. Which Starfleet admiral becomes a major antagonist in Star Trek Into Darkness?
Answer: Admiral Alexander Marcus.
144. What name does the main antagonist use in Star Trek Beyond?
Answer: Krall.
145. Which actor became the first Star Trek performer to portray members of the Romulan, Vulcan and Klingon species?
Answer: Mark Lenard. His most enduring role was Spock’s father, but his appearances across three major alien cultures make him an unusual link between several important pieces of early Star Trek history.
146. Which Enterprise-D crew member later becomes Deep Space Nine’s chief of operations?
Answer: Miles O’Brien.
147. What species is Starfleet officer Ro Laren?
Answer: Bajoran.
148. What name is given to the transporter duplicate created in an accident on Nervala IV?
Answer: Thomas Riker.
149. In what year did Star Trek: The Next Generation premiere?
Answer: 1987. That puts its beginning firmly inside the decade covered by my 80s trivia questions and answers, even though most of TNG would eventually become a major piece of 1990s television.
150. What is the title of the Deep Space Nine series premiere?
Answer: “Emissary.”
Your Medium-Round Score
Add up this section separately before moving on. If you remembered obscure relationships more easily than the ship technology, or DS9 better than the movies, the final 50 may change your ranking again.
Medium round: ___ / 80
The last round is harder, but I still wanted the questions to trigger recognition when you see the answer. No random stardate exam is waiting for you.
Hard Star Trek Trivia Questions and Answers
The final 50 hard Star Trek trivia questions are aimed at longtime viewers and fans who remember specific episodes, secondary characters and deeper pieces of canon. Harder doesn’t mean impossible here. You’ll see recognizable episodes and characters, but the answer usually requires one extra step of recall.
Older Star Trek still carries most of the round, while a few newer-series questions appear toward the end. Fans searching for hard Star Trek trivia questions for true fans should have enough challenge without needing an encyclopedia beside them.
Character Histories and Deeper Lore
The first part of the hard round stays close to people and episodes that dedicated fans know. The difficulty comes from remembering what happened to them, where they came from or which less-famous character played an important role.
151. Which of Kirk’s former Starfleet Academy classmates develops dangerous powers in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”?
Answer: Gary Mitchell.
152. What is the name of the malfunctioning Earth probe that becomes dangerously powerful in “The Changeling”?
Answer: Nomad.
153. Why does Jean-Luc Picard have an artificial heart?
Answer: A Nausicaan stabbed him through the heart during a fight when he was a young Starfleet officer. “Tapestry” later lets Picard revisit the reckless decision that led to the injury and forces him to consider how much that mistake shaped the person he became.
154. What is the name of the experimental computer designed to operate a starship without a crew in “The Ultimate Computer”?
Answer: M-5.
155. What name does Data give the android daughter he creates in “The Offspring”?
Answer: Lal.
156. What enormous artificial structure surrounding a star does the Enterprise-D discover in “Relics”?
Answer: A Dyson sphere. The concept predates Star Trek and refers to a hypothetical structure built around a star to capture a huge portion of its energy, making the episode one of TNG’s better-known encounters with a real speculative-science idea.
157. What is the name of Worf’s biological father?
Answer: Mogh.
158. What is the Cardassian Union’s feared intelligence organization called?
Answer: The Obsidian Order.
159. What is the name of Benjamin Sisko’s wife who dies during the Battle of Wolf 359?
Answer: Jennifer Sisko.
160. Which social worker does Kirk meet after traveling to 1930s New York in “The City on the Edge of Forever”?
Answer: Edith Keeler.
161. What is the name of the elite Starfleet Academy flight team involved in the accident investigated in “The First Duty”?
Answer: Nova Squadron.
162. Which mysterious operative arrives on 20th-century Earth in the Original Series episode “Assignment: Earth”?
Answer: Gary Seven.
163. What secret about Julian Bashir’s childhood is eventually revealed on Deep Space Nine?
Answer: His parents had him genetically enhanced as a child. Genetic enhancement is heavily restricted in the Federation because of Earth’s history with engineered humans, so the revelation threatens Bashir’s Starfleet medical career as well as exposing a family secret.
164. What name is given to the non-corporeal beings opposed to Bajor’s Prophets?
Answer: The Pah-wraiths.
165. What was Seven of Nine’s birth name?
Answer: Annika Hansen.
166. What is the name of the hidden mental realm where certain Borg drones can experience individuality while regenerating?
Answer: Unimatrix Zero. In Voyager, drones who enter it can meet as individuals without initially remembering the experience after waking, creating the foundation for resistance inside the Collective itself.
167. What incredibly powerful substance leads Janeway to invoke the Omega Directive?
Answer: The Omega molecule.
168. A younger Tuvok once served under Captain Hikaru Sulu aboard which starship?
Answer: USS Excelsior.
169. How many wives does Dr. Phlox say he has?
Answer: Three.
170. Who serves as Enterprise NX-01’s armory officer?
Answer: Malcolm Reed.
Episodes, Conflicts and Canon
Several of these hard Star Trek trivia questions come from famous TOS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager episodes, but they ask for details a casual viewer may have forgotten. Deep Space Nine and Voyager fans should find a few chances to make up points here.
171. Which species makes its first Star Trek appearance in the Original Series episode “Balance of Terror”?
Answer: The Romulans.
172. What is the name of the sleeper ship carrying Khan Noonien Singh and his followers in “Space Seed”?
Answer: SS Botany Bay.
173. What silicon-based life form does the Enterprise crew encounter in “The Devil in the Dark”?
Answer: The Horta.
174. Which reptilian species does Kirk face in combat in “Arena”?
Answer: The Gorn.
175. What tactical maneuver developed by Jean-Luc Picard uses high warp speed to make a ship briefly appear to be in two places at once?
Answer: The Picard Maneuver. Picard used it while commanding the USS Stargazer at the Battle of Maxia, and the tactic was later named after him and studied by Starfleet.
176. Which Starfleet ship is trapped in the same temporal loop as the Enterprise-D in “Cause and Effect”?
Answer: USS Bozeman.
177. In “Relics,” how has a survivor managed to remain alive for decades aboard the abandoned Jenolen?
Answer: He stored his transporter pattern inside the transporter buffer and kept the system running.
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178. Which Original Series episode is revisited during the Deep Space Nine story “Trials and Tribble-ations”?
Answer: “The Trouble with Tribbles.”
179. What type of ancient automated weapon threatens entire planets in “The Doomsday Machine”?
Answer: A planet killer, commonly called the Doomsday Machine.
180. What illegal technology was secretly tested aboard the USS Pegasus?
Answer: An interphase cloaking device.
181. Which civilization repeatedly alters history using temporal technology during Voyager’s “Year of Hell”?
Answer: The Krenim.
182. What unusual phenomenon causes centuries to pass on a planet while far less time passes aboard Voyager in “Blink of an Eye”?
Answer: A temporal differential.
183. Which experimental propulsion method leads to disaster in the alternate future shown in Voyager’s “Timeless”?
Answer: Quantum slipstream drive.
184. Which other Starfleet ship does Voyager encounter whose crew has resorted to unethical methods to shorten its journey through the Delta Quadrant?
Answer: USS Equinox.
185. What is the name of the Vulcan ship that lands on Earth after detecting humanity’s first warp flight?
Answer: T’Plana-Hath. The ship lands near Bozeman, Montana, on April 5, 2063, and its crew’s meeting with Zefram Cochrane becomes humanity’s formal first contact with extraterrestrial life in Star Trek history.
The Final Star Trek Fan Challenge
The last 15 mix production history, finales and newer Star Trek with classic franchise lore. They should be the toughest questions in the article, but the goal remains the same: recognition and memory rather than meaningless technical minutiae.
186. Which actor plays Christopher Pike in Star Trek’s original pilot, “The Cage”?
Answer: Jeffrey Hunter.
187. Which actress plays Number One in “The Cage”?
Answer: Majel Barrett.
188. Michael Myers’s famous mask in the original Halloween was created from a commercial mask based on which Star Trek character?
Answer: Captain Kirk, using a mask based on William Shatner’s face. The inexpensive Captain Kirk mask was modified for Halloween, creating a strange connection between Star Trek and one of horror cinema’s most famous villains. It’s one of my favorite crossover facts from the Halloween movie trivia.
189. What is the title of the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Answer: “All Good Things…”
190. What is the title of the Deep Space Nine series finale?
Answer: “What You Leave Behind.”
191. Who is revered as the legendary founder of the Klingon Empire?
Answer: Kahless the Unforgettable.
192. What type of Emmy Award did Star Trek: The Animated Series win in 1975?
Answer: A Daytime Emmy Award. The series won Outstanding Entertainment – Children’s Series, giving animated Star Trek an important place in the franchise’s awards history rather than leaving it as merely a short-lived curiosity between TOS and the movies.
193. Which Discovery character is the focus of the Short Treks episode “The Brightest Star”?
Answer: Saru.
194. What is the name of Dahj’s twin sister in the first season of Star Trek: Picard?
Answer: Soji Asha.
195. What species is Una Chin-Riley revealed to be in Strange New Worlds?
Answer: Illyrian.
196. What class of starship is the USS Cerritos in Lower Decks?
Answer: California-class.
197. Which character from Discovery returns as the central figure in Star Trek: Section 31?
Answer: Emperor Philippa Georgiou. Michelle Yeoh reprises the Mirror Universe character in the 2025 movie, where Georgiou becomes involved with the secret Starfleet organization while confronting parts of her own past.
198. What is the name of the modified Romulan mining vessel used by the main antagonist in Star Trek (2009)?
Answer: Narada.
199. What is the title of Voyager’s final episode?
Answer: “Endgame.”
200. Which performer from “The Cage” was retained to play the same character in Star Trek’s second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”?
Answer: Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Most of the original pilot’s cast changed before the series moved forward, but Nimoy remained, creating one of the strongest links between Star Trek’s earliest attempt to reach television and the version that ultimately became a cultural phenomenon.
Your Hard-Round Score
If these questions slowed you down, they did what hard trivia is supposed to do. Add the final 50 points to your easy and medium results.
Hard round: ___ / 50
What’s Your Star Trek Trivia Score?
You can score the full Star Trek trivia quiz with one point for every correct answer, for a maximum of 200. I wanted a wide spread between knowing the famous characters and remembering details from individual episodes, so there’s plenty of room between casual fan and near-perfect score.
0-49 correct – Starfleet Cadet
You know some of the biggest names and ideas, but Starfleet still has plenty of viewing material for you.
50-89 correct – Ensign
You’ve spent enough time in this universe to know more than the basics, even if a few crews caught you off guard.
90-124 correct – Lieutenant
A strong result. You can move between several Star Trek eras without completely losing your bearings.
125-154 correct – Commander
You remember characters, ships, alien cultures and major stories across several series and movies.
155-179 correct – Captain
You know Star Trek very well. The hard round probably contained more frustrating near-misses than complete mysteries.
180-194 correct – Admiral
Very little escaped you, including deeper episode lore and questions outside the best-known series.
195-200 correct – Starfleet Trivia Legend
If you scored this high without searching for answers, you should probably be hosting the next Star Trek trivia night.
Which Star Trek Eras Appear Most in These 200 Questions?
The Original Series and The Next Generation receive the most attention in this Star Trek trivia collection, followed by Deep Space Nine, Voyager, the classic movies and Enterprise. That weighting is intentional. Kirk, Spock, Picard, Data, Worf and the crews around them have six decades of franchise history behind them, while DS9 and Voyager add enough depth to make a 200-question quiz much more interesting than a TOS-and-TNG-only challenge.
The Animated Series, Kelvin-timeline movies, Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Prodigy and Starfleet Academy appear too, along with a small amount of Short Treks and Section 31. Newer Trek is represented without turning a quiz created for several generations of fans into a test dominated by the most recent releases.
I mixed the series throughout because I find that more fun. A TNG fan might cruise through Picard questions, lose points on Voyager and suddenly recover when Kirk appears again. It also works better when several people play together and their favorite Star Trek eras aren’t the same.
How to Use These Questions for a Star Trek Trivia Night
You don’t need to read all 200 questions aloud to use this as a Star Trek trivia night set. For a shorter game, choose questions from all three difficulty levels and keep the series mixed. A 30-question version could use around 10 easy questions, 15 medium questions and five hard ones, which gives casual players chances to score without making the final result too easy for longtime fans.
Scoring a Star Trek Trivia Night
The simplest system is one point per correct answer. I prefer that to awarding two or three points for harder questions because everybody hears the same question, and a single hard answer shouldn’t completely outweigh several correct easier ones.
Before you start, decide how strict you’ll be about spelling, ranks and full names. I’d accept a recognizable spelling of Qo’noS, for instance, and I wouldn’t reject “Picard” when a question clearly asks for Jean-Luc Picard unless the full name is the fact being tested.
Playing With Mixed-Knowledge Teams
If some players know Star Trek inside out and others don’t, put people into teams and spread the questions across eras. You can even mix one Star Trek round into a larger general knowledge quiz instead of making the entire evening about one franchise.
For a group with younger and older fans, I’d avoid choosing 15 consecutive questions from the hardest section. A few difficult questions are fun; a whole game where nobody can answer anything stops being one fairly quickly.
Using the Hard Questions as Tie-Breakers
Questions from the final 50 work well as tie-breakers, but choose one the players haven’t already heard. If nobody gets it, move to another question rather than switching to a random stardate or asking players to estimate an obscure number.
A good tie-breaker still gives someone a realistic chance to know the answer. Winning because you remembered Kahless, the Picard Maneuver or T’Plana-Hath feels much better than winning because your guess at a starship measurement happened to be closer.
Conclusion
Putting these 200 Star Trek trivia questions together took me back through a franchise I’ve known for a surprisingly large part of my life. I first watched Picard and his crew on a black-and-white television when cable TV itself felt exciting, later discovered Kirk and Deep Space Nine, eventually got that wonderful color TV, and decades afterward found myself binge-watching all of TNG again.
I still don’t remember everything. That’s part of the fun. One episode comes back immediately, another answer sits somewhere at the edge of your memory, and then a question about a character you haven’t thought about in 20 years suddenly feels easy.
Star Trek has now been doing that to viewers for 60 years.
So how did you do? I’d love to know your score, but I’m even more curious about which era gave you the easiest points and which one caused the most trouble. And if the years around TNG, DS9 and Voyager are your strongest nostalgia territory, you can change subjects completely with my 90s music trivia after this.
Questions About This Star Trek Trivia Quiz
With 200 Star Trek quiz questions and answers spanning six decades, a few practical questions are worth answering for readers using the page for a game or choosing which parts to play.
Does this Star Trek trivia quiz cover all the television series?
Yes. The questions include The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Prodigy and Starfleet Academy. Short Treks appears as well, while the movies include the original-cast films, TNG films, the Kelvin timeline and Section 31.
Are there more questions about classic Star Trek than the newer shows?
Yes. TOS and TNG receive the largest share, with substantial coverage of DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and the earlier movies. The newer series are included so the collection reflects the wider franchise, but they don’t dominate it.
Are these Star Trek trivia questions suitable for casual fans?
The easy section is. Those questions focus on well-known characters, ships, species, technology and films. Medium requires better recall, while the final 50 are intended for longtime fans who remember individual episodes and deeper canon.
How difficult are the hard Star Trek trivia questions?
They require more detailed knowledge, but they aren’t built around random stardates, meaningless serial numbers or one-scene characters. Most dedicated fans should recognize what the question refers to even when they can’t immediately remember the answer.
Can I use these questions for a Star Trek trivia night or pub quiz?
Yes. You can use all 200 for a long game or select questions from several parts of the article for shorter rounds. Mixing easy, medium and hard questions usually works better when players have different levels of Star Trek knowledge.
How were the Star Trek trivia answers fact-checked?
I checked franchise, character, episode and movie information against official Star Trek and Paramount material wherever possible, then removed or rewrote questions that could reasonably produce more than one answer. I also checked for repeated facts so the same piece of trivia isn’t simply turned around and asked again later.
How I Checked These 200 Star Trek Trivia Questions and Answers
With a franchise that has existed since 1966, it’s surprisingly easy for a trivia collection to mix up television canon, movie timelines, fan terminology and details that changed from one era to another. I used the official Star Trek series and movies hub as a starting point for franchise coverage, while Paramount’s 60th anniversary coverage confirms the original September 8, 1966 television debut.
Several of the more specific questions were checked against official material too. StarTrek.com’s explanation of the Prime Directive identifies it as General Order 1, while its history of the Space Shuttle Enterprise documents the real-world Star Trek fan campaign connected with the shuttle’s name.
The stranger crossovers needed checking as well. StarTrek.com’s account of William Shatner’s Halloween mask connection confirms the Captain Kirk origin behind Michael Myers’s mask, while the site’s history of the USS Stargazer covers the Battle of Maxia and the Picard Maneuver.
I left out questions when the only thing making them difficult was an arbitrary registry number, exact stardate or microscopic production detail. Easy should feel accessible, medium should reward regular viewers, and hard should make a serious fan stop and think – without turning Star Trek trivia into an encyclopedia exam.
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Violeta-Loredana Pascal is a communications expert, business mentor, and the founder of Earth’s Attractions and PRwave INTERNATIONAL. A pioneer in the Romanian digital PR landscape since 2005, she holds a degree in Communication and Social Sciences from SNSPA Bucharest. Violeta is a senior trainer at AcademiadeAfaceri.ro, where she leverages over 20 years of experience to teach professional courses in PR strategy and workplace productivity. By blending high-level business consulting with a passion for holistic travel and wellness, she empowers solopreneurs to overcome procrastination, build profitable brands, and design a life of purposeful adventure.
